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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

US Air Force · 1997 · 234 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 3 11 CS/SCSRL 1000 Air Force Pentagon 000 Wasb\ngton DC 20330·1 The Roswell Report…
  • p. 4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McAndrew, James, 1963- The Roswell report : case closed I…
  • p. 5 Foreword The "Roswell Incident" has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of…
  • p. 6 …Section Two examines the alleged activities at the Roswell Army Airfield Hospital. Appendix A is a…
  • p. 7 …Weaver, of The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995), the first…
  • p. 8 …55 SECTION TWO Reports of Bodies at Roswell Army Air Field Hospital ........................................... 75 2.1 The…
  • p. 9 …69 SECTION TWO 2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
  • p. 10 …The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction In The New Mexico Desert. 2. The International UFO Museum…
  • p. 11 …VIKING Spaceprobe at Roswell Industrial Airport, Roswell, N.M. 55. VIKING Space Probe Awaiting Recovery at…
  • p. 13 …Ballard Funeral Home, Roswell, N.M. 10. Maj. David G. Simons (MC), Otto C. Winzen, and…
  • p. 14 …Reports of flying saucers and alien bodies allegedly sighted in the Roswell area in 1947, have…
  • p. 15 …The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert contains, in its entirety, the…
  • p. 16 …37,000), boasts competing "museums" focusing on the Roswell Incident, including this one, The International UFO…
  • p. 17 …However, following some initial confusion at Roswell Army Air Field, the "flying disc" was soon identified…
  • p. 18 …on a ranch 75 miles northwest of Roswell, N.M. in June 1947, which contains all…
  • p. 19 …Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer from Roswell Army Air Field, with the debris found 75 miles…
  • p. 20 …This account from the July 9, 1947 Roswell Daily Record, described the materials "tinfoil, paper, rubber…
  • p. 21 …Since many of the Roswell accounts and allegations were collected by irregular methods and are not…
  • p. 22 …This site, located on the Foster Ranch approximately 75 miles northwest of the city of Roswell…
  • p. 23 …The actual Project MoGuL landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility, and more importantly…
  • p. 24 …Since the account of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital did not contain elements…
  • p. 25 …Gerald Anderson, an alleged witness of events at the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, recalled…
  • p. 26 …Vern Maltais, a secondhand witness of the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, described the hands…
  • p. 27 …These missiles were determined not to have been involved in the Roswell Incident. 16 Figs. 12…
  • p. 32 …Dummies of these types were most likely the "aliens" associated with the "Roswell Incident." =================§~~F================ 21
  • p. 33 …military reservations in eastern New Mexico, near Roswell, and in areas surrounding the Tularosa Valley in…
  • p. 34 …NW of Roswell) fiOI swell @1 @ alker AFB rmerly Roswell AAF) Anthropomorphic Dummy Launch Locations D…
  • p. 40 …54 On one occasion, just southwest of Roswell, a HIGH DrvE project officer, 1st Lt. Raymond…
  • p. 43 …witnesses as a distinguishing feature of the Roswell aliens. (U.S. Air Force photo) Despite these…
  • p. 44 …Memo taken from Project HIGH DIVE files explaining the loss of a dummy near Roswell, N…
  • p. 46 On one occasion northwest of Roswell, a local woman unfamiliar with the test activities arrived at…
  • p. 47 …This balloon was launched from Roswell Industrial Air Center (formerly Roswell AAF), Roswell, N.M., to…
  • p. 48 …Unsolved Mysteries, featured a segment on the Roswell Incident. The program, hosted by actor Robert Stack…
  • p. 52 …84 Various accounts of the "Roswell Incident" often described thin, metal-like materials that when wadded…
  • p. 54 …95 While the origins of the "Roswell" scenarios cannot be specifically traced to these vehicles, their…
  • p. 55 …Air Force high altitude balloons in 1972 at the former Roswell Army Air Field. (NASA) Fig…
  • p. 56 …In The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, the authors published a drawing of a…
  • p. 57 …98 From 1947 to the present, the Roswell area has been the site of hundreds of…
  • p. 59 …In the flat, featureless desert areas of southeastern New Mexico near Roswell, the parachutes, payloads, the…
  • p. 60 …and circling aircraft in the desert near Roswell were part of a balloon recovery mission, and…
  • p. 61 …This bulldozer was rented for one recovery in the Sacramento mountains west of Roswell. (photo collection…
  • p. 65 "Crash" Site 1 (Allegedly North of Roswell) This summarized account is the basis for the alleged…
  • p. 67 …of Roswell) This purported flying saucer "crash" site is allegedly 175 miles northwest of Roswell in…
  • p. 69 …The Firsthand Account This testimony became part of the Roswell Incident in 1990 following an episode…
  • p. 70 …of the other crash site, north of Roswell, who described the "aliens" as "dummies." 138 Other…
  • p. 74 …at the other crash site north of Roswell, were also described. Witnesses at the two different…
  • p. 76 …A witness to the "crash site" north of Roswell, Mr. James Ragsdale, was not certain of…
  • p. 77 …In the popular Roswell scenarios, witnesses were allegedly instructed by military personnel to leave the area…
  • p. 78 …Site North of Roswell "Crash Site" 2- Site 175 miles Northwest of Roswell Shaded areas indicates…
  • p. 84 …The International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M. SECTION TWO Reports of Bodies…
  • p. 85 …4 The accident victim was an "airman" stationed at Roswell AAF, and Dennis transported the airman…
  • p. 86 …with him at the officers' club at Roswell AAF that afternoon. 24 When the two met…
  • p. 87 …The two mysterious doctors at the hospital were sent to Roswell AAF from a higher headquarters…
  • p. 89 …Both of these persons were allegedly present at the Roswell AAF hospital when the events described…
  • p. 90 …Eileen Mae Fanton was the only nurse of the five assigned to Roswell AAF in July…
  • p. 91 …Fanton's unannounced departure from Roswell AAF, on September 4, 1947 was to be admitted to…
  • p. 92 …drugstore operator. =================a~£F================ Behind the Roswell Incident? The "Roswell Incident" story is hardly original. In…
  • p. 93 …the Aztec story, Behind the Flying Saucers bears many similarities to the Roswell Incident, most notably…
  • p. 94 …proved that none of the nurses at Roswell AAF in July 1947 were missing, and the…
  • p. 95 …nurse, was another nurse stationed at the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947.78 Dennis claims…
"Crash" Site 1
(Allegedly North of Roswell)
This summarized account is the basis for the alleged "flying
saucer" crash site north of Roswell.* The exact location is not known
since the witness, Mr. James Ragsdale, in two separate sworn statements,
has described two different sites, many miles apart. 107 This account
was excerpted from an interview with Mr. Ragsdale by author Donald
Schmitt. A transcript of the complete interview is included in Appendix C.
The Account
James Ragsdale
"They was using dummies in those damned things" 108
Testimony attributed to Ragsdale, who is deceased, states that he
and a friend were camping one evening and saw something fall from the sky.
The next morning, when they went to investigate, they saw a crash site:
"One part [of the craft] was kind of buried in the ground and
one part of it was sticking our [out] of the ground." "I'm sure that [there]
was bodies ... either bodies or dummies." "The federal government could
have been doing something they didn't want anyone to know what this
was. They was using dummies in those damned things ... they could use
remote control... but it was either dummies or bodies or something laying
there. They looked like bodies. They were not very long ... [not] over four
or five foot long at the most." "We didn't see their faces or nothing like
that... we had just gotten to the site and the Army... and all [was] coming
and we got into a damned jeep and took off."
This testimony then describes an assortment of military vehicles
used to recover the "bodies": "It was two or three six-by-six Army trucks a
wrecker and everything. Leading the pack was a '47 Ford car with guys in
it... It was six or eight big trucks besides the pickup, weapons carriers and
stuff like that." Ragsdale also said that before he left the area he observed the
military personnel "gathering stuff up" and "they cleaned everything all up."
Assessment
In his testimony, Ragsdale made numerous references to
equipment, vehicles, and procedures consistent with documented
anthropomorphic dummy recoveries for projects HIGH DIVE and
ExcELSIOR. The repeated use of the term "dummy" and the witness'
own admission that "they was using dummies in those damned
things" and "I'm sure that was bodies ... either bodies or dummies"
* In The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (Avon Books, 1994, p. 131), the authors
provided a corroborating account for this testimony from a 96-year-old man who was in ill
health, whose interview was not tape recorded, and has since died. According to the book, the
man's "wife and daughter said that he was easily confused" and "memories of his life were
jumbled and reordered."
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